The Executive Director (ED) is responsible for leading the local chapter to achieve program objectives, fundraising targets, and manage and grow the annual local budget in alignment with Back on My Feet’s mission, vision, and core values. This role oversees a team of multiple local staff, manages the stewardship of the local Advisory Board, and reports to the Territory Director while collaborating closely with the Chief Development Officer and Development Team.
Key responsibilities will include:
Leadership and Growth
- Drive the successful implementation of the Back on My Feet program, meeting defined revenue and program goals
- Develop and execute overall fundraising strategy to meet or exceed annual fundraising targets and chapter budget goals
- Hire, manage, and support local staff, fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment
- Engage and grow the local Advisory Board to advance fundraising, partnerships, and program objectives
- Collaborate with the national leadership team and play an integral role in developing and implementing a chapter model that can be replicated in other chapters on varying scales
Volunteer Engagement and Management
- Manage and grow a robust volunteer community to support chapter goals and initiatives, ensuring volunteers have a shared understanding of Back on My Feet’s mission and vision and adhere to Back on My Feet policies and procedures
- Recruit, train, and retain individuals and corporate volunteers to support Circle Ups, workforce development, events and financial goals
Program Implementation
- Strengthen and expand Back on My Feet’s presence by cultivating new facility partnerships and deepening engagement with existing partners, ensuring sustained growth in program KPI’s and impactful collaboration
- Oversee the delivery of Back on My Feet’s workforce development program. Grow and strengthen partnerships with referral agencies, corporate and employment partners to provide needed support and services to members
- Cultivate and steward relationships with donors, corporate partners, and foundations
- Identify and secure diverse local funding sources, including grants, partnerships, and corporate sponsorships
- Plan and manage fundraising events to generate revenue and community awareness
- Collaborate with the development team on national partnerships, relationships and campaigns
General and Administrative
- Ensure accurate and timely tracking of program, donor, and partner data in Salesforce
- Proactively collaborate with BoMF central staff to provide impactful stories and event details for media coverage
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree, OR equivalent combination of education, training, and 4+ years of relevant work experience.
- Volunteer management experience highly preferred.
- Ability to communicate effectively with diverse populations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including excellent public presentation skills.
- Willingness/ability to travel to multiple locations in Chicago and surrounding areas.
- Ability to adhere to unconventional work schedule (e.g. morning circle-ups, starting between 5:00am & 5:30am; occasional evening and weekend programmatic activities).
- Understanding of homelessness, social services, recovery, and non-profit landscape preferred.
- Proficiency with technology required, including CRM or case management software (Salesforce experience preferred), Slack, Asana, Microsoft Office.
Core Competencies
- Strategic leadership and team management
- Fundraising and donor cultivation
- Community engagement and partnership development
- Data‑driven decision‐making and accountability
- Budgeting, forecasting and fiscal management.
Personal Characteristics
- High-energy, results oriented individual who is able to adapt quickly to a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Leader that is driven to contribute to overarching organizational goals.
- Proactive, assertive, and hands‑on individual who is self‑motivated and autonomous.
- Able to quickly assess the inner workings of a national nonprofit structure with the purpose of driving continual improvement in organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
- Unquestionable integrity and highest ethical standards.
- Able to work effectively with diverse groups of people from a variety of backgrounds and embrace working across lines of difference.
- Can build trust and establish effective work relationships at all levels of the organization.
Benefits
Benefits include health and dental plans; childcare, travel and medical flex reimbursement plans; retirement savings plan; annual reimbursement for athletic gear; generous PTO.
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In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
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